“Sweat” is the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner in the category for drama. Written by the praised playwright Lynn Nottage, “Sweat” is now making its Orange County debut at The Chance Theater in a virtual staging.
On the very first day June – for many of us the perceived start of the summer season – I was greeted with a most unsettling newspaper headline: “Climate change causes 37% of global heat deaths, study finds.”
For those of us who admire chameleon-like actors – Meryl Streep, Danial Day-Lewis, Kate Winslet and the late James Whitmore, are all members of this disappear-into-their-character club of thespians – another one of these mystical performers is one who may not yet be on everyone’s screen (or stage
The two men sit at opposite sides of a metal table bolted to the floor in a subterranean interrogation room in Berlin. They look exactly alike but live in very different circumstances.
Memorial Day has special meaning for many of us who served during the Vietnam War, which saw 58,220 American casualties between Nov. 1, 1955 and April 30, 1975.
For those of us whose money-making endeavors date back a ways, what I now intend to discuss will probably cause consternation. The reason for this is nothing more than human nature.
From a distance, Charlotte (Rose Williams) sees the wheel of a carriage break free, the horses detach themselves and the carriage tip over on its side. She and her companions rush to help. Inside the carriage, Tom Parker (Kris Marshall) and his wife are dazed but unhurt.